I think people are always looking for a transcendent experience, and when perfume is exceptional, it does offer that. I know of a man who argued that hurricanes can actually make people feel good. The idea is that they lift people out of an everyday malaise; a free-floating despair associated with the feeling that you’re not a part of the world or connected to the people in it. I think perfume has an oddly similar effect; it lifts people out of their mundane existence and it shows them a glimpse of another world; another place or time. It makes us feel something we have long forgotten, and it makes us dream again. There’s a lot of fragmentation and alienation in the modern world. I think that’s why so many of us are reconnecting with the earth in various ways. There’s a subconscious desire to gain what’s been lost.

Thanks to Miriam Carl we have a draw for a US or Canadian registered reader of their choice of full size bottle of either  Autumn Afternoon, Visions in the Garden, Labyrinth, Café Providence or a sampler set of all  four botanical perfumes. The random winner of the draw is Fazal Cheema who chose Labyrinth. Please email michelyn at CAFleureBon DAWT com with Kindred Earth Botanicals   12 noon ESTLabyrinth as your subject and your mailing and phone details by September 13, 2015 12 Noon EDT. This is a deadline and no exception if you are late. You must use your email from your comment so we know it is you.

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